7 Best WhatsApp Alternatives 2018

WhatsApp Alternatives:- WhatsApp has become a routine of more than 150 billion people around the globe. As Facebook spread their wings to conquer the social networking field, we came across multiple but significant changes on the interface and functions of WhatsApp. Some of you may get irritated by the tons of group messages getting piled up every day on WhatsApp. For the same disturbing nature, you may be looking for a convenient alternative to chat with your closed ones. WhatsApp has been started to be the one-stop place for all your social messaging needs. Even after its primary aim getting fulfilled, the platform went on to receive major firmware and feature updates.

As a result, we now have one of the best social networking apps available today. Still, you may think that WA isn’t enough due to its overly saturated features. Then, you must try out some alternative apps like WhatsApp. For the same reason we have collected seven of them here for you to test each and stumble upon the best one.

It has a lot of features similar to WhatsApp including the much popular read receipts itself. Moreover, Hike completely relies upon phone number as the mode of communication. You can even post WhatsApp-like stories on it too.

Messenger

Despite being a subsidiary of the parent Facebook website, the company took effort to developing it as a standalone application. Today, Messenger is a complete WhatsApp alternative with a few unique features.

Not to mention, Facebook has integrated stories to Messenger too as to any other social media app they own. Messenger allows you to have secure and end-to-end encrypted conversations inside the app. You need to dig a little deep to the Settings screen for that.

Viber

If you have been an Android user since long, you might have heard of Viber before. About 4 years ago, when I started using Android for the first time, Viber was one of the few applications with voice calling facility.

Telegram

Telegram is one of the most popular WhatsApp-like applications available today. Given its security measures for the secret chats inside the app, you won’t regret installing Telegram. The secret chat is so secured that you can’t even take the screenshot.

Once you start chatting on it, you will realise that the conversation UI resembles WhatsApp up to a great extent. Of course, you can make calls. But the person on the other end should have an updated application.

Allo

Google has introduced Allo to the market with a bang. But the application didn’t perform well as they expected. But that doesn’t mean Allo isn’t worthy, of course, it is a secure WhatsApp alternative.

Google has included some useful features on the application that you can play with Google Assistant to kill your time or chat with one of your friends. Given the app is still in its infancy, you may not find it as enticing as WhatsApp does.

Tango

Despite being dedicated to social messaging, Tango works like a full social network. You can see a tab named Feed on its interface that allows you to update your status just like we do on Facebook. Moreover, it is one of the popular similar apps like WhatsApp too.

Blackberry Messenger

Last but not the least one in this list of best WhatsApp alternatives 2017 is Blackberry Messenger. It used to have a royal time once when Blackberry mobiles were considered as a symbol of luxury.

Unlike other applications, you have to go through a full account creation process on BBM to start with. Once you finish with the account creation, you can move on to adding people, from your contact list, who are already BBM users.

Conclusion

You have got seven of the best alternatives to WhatsApp. Yeah, some of the apps in this list have every WhatsApp feature. You have to be vigilant about your selection in case you want a specific feature like calling (go for Duo then).